From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R77FX-0003ZL-An for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:01:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B32B821C0D8; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (unknown [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B317C21C202 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com ([209.85.161.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R77Cb-002RRM-Qs for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:58:09 +0700 Received: by fxh2 with SMTP id 2so4336014fxh.40 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.44.90 with SMTP id z26mr5226233fae.28.1316789883776; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.97.70 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.97.70 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:58:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110923164829.215695f8@toxic.dbnet> References: <20110923134211.45dc389a@toxic.dbnet> <201109231534.46063.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110923164829.215695f8@toxic.dbnet> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:58:03 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: google search results (was: Modifying LiveCDs) From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001517402dc0442d0b04ad9d09fe X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 79104913e6d52585460bd09e507ddc60 --001517402dc0442d0b04ad9d09fe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sep 23, 2011 9:53 PM, "Jonas de Buhr" wrote: > > >This is because Google uses geo-targeting to determine what results > >you may be interested in (assuming your geo-location from your IP > >address), and > > are you sure google uses ip geo-location? the results change a lot if > you just change the TLD or hl= > > /jonas > It seems like it. Accessing www.google.com in my country always gets me redirected to www.google.co.id. Unless I login first. Rgds, --001517402dc0442d0b04ad9d09fe Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8


On Sep 23, 2011 9:53 PM, "Jonas de Buhr" <jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> >This is because Google uses geo-targeting to determine what results
> >you may be interested in (assuming your geo-location from your IP
> >address), and
>
> are you sure google uses ip geo-location? the results change a lot if
> you just change the TLD or hl=
>
> /jonas
>

It seems like it. Accessing www.google.com in my country always gets me redirected to www.google.co.id. Unless I login first.

Rgds,

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